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Today’s meeting includes Brian Goodmon on HTML 5, Joe Comeau on CSS 3 and Mike Korcynski with a quick look at Heroku.  Brian and Joe created a reverence at http://developers.atech.tufts.edu/bgoodm01/WhatsNewInHTML5/.

The next Tufts Programmers Meeting is on THURSDAY, February 7th at 3pm in TAB’s Atrium Conference Room.  Our guest speaker is Noah Mendelsohn, Chair of the Technical Architecture Group at the W3C.  His talk is […]

There’s a TuftsUniversity account on GitHub!  I created a page showing how to get your code into our shared GitHub repository.  Let me know if you have any questions or problems with GitHub.

Ben’s comprehensive slides on AppScan are available: AppScan Demonstration

There are two items that could benefit us in UIT – federated services use cases and Shibboleth test participants.

As I talked about in my presentation, we think there’s an opportunity to provide better […]

Great conference to stay current with latest web design, usability and
front-end development techniques:
http://aneventapart.com/2012/boston/slides/

Using CSS instead of graphics for buttons:
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Interested in learning more about Spring courses from the CS department? Ming Chow sent out this announcement:

The Spring 2013 Courses Preview will be on Monday, October 29th from 12 – 1:30 PM in […]

http://hydra.mobiforge.com/

Mike found a link to a site that’s great for testing mobile code.  You give it a URL and it simulates multiple mobile browsers.

Speak up!  Make sure you can be heard in the back of the room.
The meeting is short.  You will probably only have 15 minutes and you can’t run over.
Your audience is very technical.  Skip stuff they already […]

Our second meeting is Friday, February 10th at 3:15 in the Atrium Room in TAB (the Tufts Administration Building ). Here’s our agenda: Introductions – everyone gets to say “Hi”. Tufts Systems Infrastructure – 15 minutes.  Last year the infrastructure staff build a new data center and made a big move to virtualization.  We’ll get a recap. Tufts…[Read more]

Our second meeting is Friday Feb 10th at 3:15. We’re meeting in the Atrium Room in TAB (the Tufts Administration Building ).  Suggestions for the agenda are welcome.  Anyone can have 5 minutes to present anything they like, perhaps a project, technology or pesky problem.  The meeting will include a review of some new technology (perhaps [Read more]

Our first meeting is Friday, Oct 28th at 3:15 in the Atrium Room in TAB (the Tufts Administration Building ) We begin with 3 minute group introductions in this order: UIT Educational and Scholarly Technology Services, Tech Team (Steve McDonald) UIT Enterprise Aplications, Application Services (Bill Sivret) UIT Student Information Services…[Read more]

Our first meeting begins with introductions. I’ve asked someone from each group to give a 3 minute talk describing their group. At a minimum, it should: Give the names of everyone in the group (members present at the meeting can say “Hi”) Describe what the group does for its customers List the major technologies used (languages, source control [...]

We’re “gathering the tribes” on Friday Oct 28th at 3:15. The meeting is in the Atrium Room in TAB (the Tufts Administration Building ). TAB is in Somerville, between Davis Square and Teele Square. We’ll start the meeting with Ignite style /lightning group introductions. An individual from each group has 3 or 4 minutes to say who is in [...]

Our first meeting is Friday Oct 28th at 3:15. We’re meeting in the Atrium Room in TAB (the Tufts Administration Building).  The agenda is still being worked out.  If you can attend, please RSVP to Stephen.McDonald@tufts.edu so we can plan for food and drinks.

Web Operations is a terrific book. Baron Schwarz’s chapter on web-centric database is especially strong. For databases that serve web sites, availability is key. This is a change from traditional systems, for example back office financial database where consistency was probably most important. Web based databases tend to be read dominated and…[Read more]

I sat in on part of a 2-day NetApp presentation. Going in I knew basically nothing about the issues they address. I had to look up NAS, SAN and WORM. The bottom of NetApp’s architecture diagram contains one or more RAIDs. Above that sits a NetApp aggregate. The aggregate manages the storage resources. An administrator creates volumes within the [...]

With Selenium 2 you can test your web application. The test code basically requires 4 steps: Creates a browser object Sends it to a URL Manipulates UI elements Screen scrapes to verify correct results Its easy, although the screen scraping can be (not surprisingly) a little fragile. I have used Selenium 2 to construct end-to-end tests for…[Read more]

JSONP enables more efficient, more client-centric designs. I wish I would have understood it better when I started building the Tufts GIS portal . The portal is a nice single-page web app that helps users find GIS data layers. It uses Solr to quickly generate search results. The original design was straightforward. The page has a map, a [...]

David set Spark up with Google Analytics so we could track usage.   Here’s the Fall 2010 semester: This graph shows page views for Spark for the entire semester.  Usage is highest mid-week (Tuesday through Thursday) and typically peaks on Wednesday.  Over the semester, Spark had nearly 106000 page views.  Peak usage was on Oct 20 [...]